Garment clasp



A. BALABAN GARMENT CLASP April 2.1, 1931.

Filed July lO, 1930 JMW@ Patented pr. 21, 1931 UNITED STATES @ARMENT CLASP Application led .Tuly 10,

This invention relates to hose supporters generally but more specifically has reference to the garment clasp proper, and has for its object to so suspend said clasp that it will '5 have a free swinging movement. 4

' Heretofore garment clasps have been suspended from a member which has been cen-k trally pivoted, but a disadvantage of this is that too much strain is thereby placed on the central stud which is usually employed as a means for retaining a slotted clasp member that is secured to the end of the webbing that passes around the leg of the wearer. Y Also, the garment clasp members proper have been looped around a stationary curved member that is secured to the front pad of the supporter, and in this instance the Webbing of the clasp members is loose around the curved member, and this webbing soon wears away owing to the constantfriction caused gy the swinging movements of the clasp memers. Y

In the present invention there is no central pivotal point and the rotary member that is supported from the front pad is suitably guided on opposite sides of its actual center, so that this movement is steadied and there is no appreciable wear on the webbing ot the garment clasp.

Referring to the accompanying drawings-- Figure l is a front elevation of a complete hose supporter equipped with a garment clasp structure made in accordance with this invention- Figure 2 is a detail view of the front pad as it appears in the completed structure, the garment clasp members being omitted.

Figure 8 is a section at the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a rear view of the front pad with the back facing broken away, and

Figure 5 is a detail rear view of the suspension member of the (garment clasp detached from the front pa Similar numerals of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

1 designates the webbing which ordinarily goes around the leg of the wearer, and has attached to one end the usual clasp member 2, while the other end of this webbing ex- 1930. sefiai No. 466,968.

tends between the front section 3 and the back section 4 of the front-pad, and it is secured thereto by means ofconcentric rows of stitching 5, 6, which stitching likewise vunites the sections 3, 4, into an unitary structure or front pad designated generally by the numeral 7. y 8 is a rear disk of metal hav,- ing riveted thereto a headed central stud 9, and also having riveted theretoV on opposite sides ofrsaid stud headed pins 10, 11.

'In riveting the stud 9in position, a hole is formed in the'front pad 31 and the inner end of thestudris reduced in diameter so as to formV a shoulder 12, which, when the stud is inserted through the pad 3, abuts against ,55 the disk 8, as clearly shown in Figure 3; the inner end of this stud 9 extends through a disk 13 which is located in the immediate rear of the pad 3, and this stud is headed firmly over against said disk, as shown at,I 7o Figure 3, and the rear pad 4 is then attached to the front pad and thereby prevents any metal part from touching the person of the wearer.

14 is a front disk which is provided withl 75 arcuate slots 15 and16 that are concentric with each other and are located at diametvrcally opposite locations in the disk 14, and through these slots extend the headed pins 10 and 1l, the bodies of these pins being close- Y 30 ly confined between the walls of the slots soI that there can be no lost motion, and a central opening 17 is made in the disk V14, through which opening the central stud 9 extends, but no part of this stud contacts the walls of this, 85 opening.

18 is an extension from the lower portion of the disk 14 and is provided with an elongated slot 19, and through this slot the webbing 20 of the garment clasp members 21, 22,. 90 is secured. i

It will be obvious that the central stud 9 is to be engaged by the slotted clasp 2 for the purpose of securing the supporter around the leg of the wearer, and it will likewise be ,95 clear that the garment clasp members proper will be so suspended that they will be capable of free swinging movements without causing any undue wear of Vthe webbing 20, and these swinging'movements will be maintained 100 from diametrically opposite points on the rotary disk 14, thereby causing less wear and providing an exceedingly stable construction.

That is claimed is 5 l. The hereindescribed means for suspending garment clasps, comprising a front pad, a disk secured thereto and having extending therefrom a central headed stud and diametrically opposite headed pins, and a rotary disk having concentric arcuate slots through which said pins project and a central opening through which said stud projects, said rotary disk having a slotted suspension member from which the garment clasp depends. 2. A device of the character described,

comprising a front pad, a disk secured thereto and having riveted thereto a central headed stud and two diametrically opposite headed pins, a rotary disk having concentric arcuate slots through which said pins proJect and a central opening through which said stud p rojects, and a suspension member extending from said rotary disk to which member the garment clasp is secured, whereby said clasp is capable of free swinging movements.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature hereto.

ABRAHAM BALABAN. 

